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    SubjectRe: [RFC v2 0/2] Early use of boot service memory
    On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 03:18:41PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
    > On 11/21/2013 03:07 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
    > > This is a problem we have to solve, but I don't think this is the right
    > > way to solve it. Why do we not just reattempt to perform the allocation
    > > immediately after we've freed the boot services regions?
    > >
    >
    > Wouldn't the memory map already have gotten scrambled all to hell by then?

    If we couldn't map a 64MB region in low memory earlier then it's likely
    to have been because there was a 64MB or greater boot services region.

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    Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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